Articulated toy figure



(No Model.) P. M. SPIEGLE. v ARTIGULATED TOY FIGURE.

No. 572,730. Patented Dec. 8, 1896.

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UNITED STATES FRED SPIEGLE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TOTHE r I AMERICAN LITHOGRAPHIO COMPANY OF NEWV YORK.

ARTICULATED TOY FIGURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,730, dated December8,1896. Application filed May 28,1896. Serial No. 693,380. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, FRED M. SPIEGLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inArticulated Toy Figures; and I do declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to thefigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in figures made in representationof living objects and in a manner to have some of the movements of suchobjects reproduced in a life-like manner; and the objects of myimprovement are to readily produce these representations to enable themto be cheaply produced in large quantities for commercial purposes. Thefigure I illustrate is a child in which I move the arms and also causethe eyes to assume a waking or sleeping aspect. I attain these objectsby the mechanism illustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a front view of one of my figures entire. Fig. 2 is aview ofthe front and back parts of the figure. Fig. 3 is a view of the centralor interior part of the figure. Fig. 4 is one of the arms. Fig. 5 is theother arm. Fig. 6 is a section on line X Y, Fig. 1; and Fig. 7 is anedge view.

Similar reference-figures refer to similar parts throughout the views.

The front 1 and the back 2 of the figure are composed of an integralpiece, the material being paper or other suitable material well adaptedto the purpose, the front and back being folded or doubled over at 3,and at one side of the front is a flap 4, having a slit 5 therein, andat the opposite side is another flap 6, having a tongue! thereon, theparts 1 2 4 6 7 being integral. The flap 4 folds at dotted line 8 andthe flap 6 folds at dotted line 9.

At 10 a diagonal slit is made, and at 11 an- 50 other andoppositely-diagonal slit is made.

Through these slits the limbs 12 13 are inserted.

At 14 15 are openings through which the eyes are exposed. The centralmember of my figure is composed of a single piece 16, having aprojection 17 on one side and another projection 18 on the other side.These projections extend over the fold-lines 8 9 and abutting points 1920 and prevent the part 16 from moving too far down or its coming out.

At 21 22 are slits set diagonally opposite. Upwardly tending throughthese the ends 23 24 of the arms 12 13 are passed, and thereafter theends may be doubled down and fastened as doubled, if desired. Above 2122 are representations of wakeful eyes 25 26, and above these arerepresentations of the eyes 27 28 as closed in sleep.

My central figure 1 shows the assembled parts, and the manner ofassembling is as fol-.

lows: The parts 1 and 2 are first doubled at 3. The part 16 is theninserted between them. Then arm 12 is inserted into slit 10, and 13 ispassed through 11. Then 24 of limb 12 is passed through slit 22, and 23of limb 13 is passed through 21. Fla-p 4 is now doubled down on line 8,and flap 6 is doubled down on line 9, and tongue 7 is inserted in slit5. The figure is now complete, as seen in Fig. 1, and if the part 29 begrasped and pulled down the body 16 will come down, bringing the closedeyes 27 28 in view through the apertures 14 15. The ends 23 24 of thelimbs 12 13 will also descend, and the limbs being moved over the ends30 31 of slits 1011, which act as fulcrums, the outer ends of the limbswill swing outward. A pushing upward of 16 by means of 29 will reversethe motion of the limbs and expose to view the open eyes.

I do not confine myself to the proportions or exact objects shown in thedrawings'or to the use of a front and back body part, as the back bodypart, while capable of ornamentation, is not otherwise essential, as theflaps from the front part inclose and secure the body part and at lesscost. Therefore I may ing moving external parts of the figure and eyesas it represents a human being, as seen in Fig. 6. The figure may bemade to stand by slightly bending the part 2, below the flaps 4 (3,outward.

I claim- 1. In an automaton figure, the combination of an exterior,folded upon and secured together by flaps, tongues and slits, a centralpart adapted to be moved within the exterior, arms inserted through theexterior and secured to the inner part and so formed as to fulcrum uponthe end of the slit Where inserted through the exterior, means forlimiting the movement of the inner part and means wherebyrepresentations of open and closed eyes are exhibited through the sameapertures,substantially as described and set forth.

2. In an automaton figure, afront part having flaps and slits to foldand fasten at the back, a body part embraced by said flaps, slits in thefront part for the insertion of limbs fulcrumed upon the ends of theslits, slits in the body part for securing said members, ap-

ertures in the front part and a double set of eye representations on thebody part and means to present them for observation through saidapertures, substantially as described.

3. In a figure representation of a living object, a front or exteriorpart having flaps thereon, slits and tongues for the flaps, means tojoin the flaps and embrace a movable body part, fulcrum-slits in thefront part adapted to have arms inserted therethrough and fulcrumed atan end thereon, slits in the body part for securing said arms or movingmembers, apertures through the front part eye representations upon thebody part and means to present such representations before saidapertures, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- FRED M. SPIEGLE. lVitnesses GEo. W. REED, R. G. VVRIGHT.

